Angela Duckworth

Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

American Psychologist

Steve Rushin

When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?

American Journalist

Brad Pitt

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

Actor

Elizabeth Blackburn

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations.

Australian Scientist

Used to describe the orientation along the longest part of an object or space.

Physical Orientation

Refers to the direction following Earth's longitudes, from north to south.

Geographical Direction

Suggests measurement, comparison, or emphasis on the length of something.

Measurement Implication

Describes studies spanning across a significant duration, usually years.

Time-Frame Specific

Used when looking at how things change or develop over a long time span.

Change over Time

Signifies repeated observation or data collection from the same subjects at various times.

Data Collection

 but I'm coming to see that actually there's even more to laughter than it's an important social emotion we should look at, because it turns out people are phenomenally nuanced in terms of how we use laughter. There's a really lovely set of studies coming out from Robert Levenson's lab in California, where he's doing a longitudinal study with couples.

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 In fact, the study never said anything about how long it takes to get over a breakup. It only focused on the aftereffects of ending a relationship, specifically among undergrads, which is a whole other can of worms. To really answer that question of how long it takes to get over a breakup, you would need to do a longitudinal study,

How long does it take to...

 scientific reason that drove this project which was to use this kind of natural longitudinal data to understand the process of how a child learns language that child being my son and so with many privacy provisions put in place to protect everyone who's recorded

The birth of a word -...

 compared to others when it comes to long-term satisfaction and civility from longitudinal studies now the things like kindness are obviously more valuable than things like physical attacks meanness or wealth right that sounds like common sense but when you watch

An algorithm for happily...

 its magnetization is easily disturbed by heat energy and can cause bits to switch unintentionally, leading to data loss. Scientists resolved this limitation in a remarkably simple by changing the direction of recording from longitudinal to perpendicular,

How do hard drives work?...

 The gondola makers began with a wooden template that may have been hammered into the workshop floor generations earlier. From this basic form, they attached fore and aft sterns, then formed the longitudinal planks and ribs that made up the frame

Corruption, wealth and...

 that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth. I started my journey in California, with a UC Berkeley 30-year longitudinal study

The hidden power of...

 longitudinal study that examined the photos of student in an old yearbook and tried to measure their success and well-being throughout their life by measuring their students smiles researchers were able to predict how

 are major life outcomes. It predicts physical health it predicts the likelihood of substance abuse. It predicts the likelihood of court-verified criminal convictions in large longitudinal research

The Science of a Happy...

 Did I just say chores? Did I just say chores? I really did. But really, here's why. The longest longitudinal study of humans ever conducted